General Photography

Some of you may have see the infrared (IR) images that I've posted, but this article is to give a bit of background to how it is done. I'll cover using a camera with and without modifications, and the pros and cons of each approach more ...

Article originally posted by trickletreat on Sunday, January 29, 2012 (19:08:37) as a forum post - promoted by layingback

A bit about me first, and it’s irrelevance to how I have been approaching strangers. I say irrelevance, as I do not think that my working life and any training received has strongly helped or overly influenced the way I approach people now or compared to how I would speak to people as a boy.

Throughout school, early jobs, university and career I have always had to be out going. This may have shown itself as confidence to those I know or have met. Nothing could be further from the truth. Whenever I have spoken to new people, or strangers, I feel a sense of heightened awareness, faster pulse, dry mouth and a fear or flight responses to some degree. more ...

I am lucky to have a job that allows me to take a lot of aerial photographs, and although it is a relatively obscure form of photography, I thought some members might be interested in how I go about capturing and processing images. These techniques will work from lower altitudes than I fly at, though the problem of haze increases dramatically with altitude. There are a number of challenges in aerial photography, both in capturing the image and processing it afterwards.

At the capture stage, the problems are mainly flare, reflections, distortion and haze. more ...

I can't take all the credit for this as I read it online elsewhere but the images were lacking on the set up so I hope this helps.
The valve listed below allows the water feed to be altered for continuous fast drips or very slow drip rates. more ...